Before she can say a word the door burst open and a short young man walks in.

“Ms Carlin, are you alright?” the principal says in a panic.

‘Ms Carlin?’ Wow he must really be scared if he’s actually willing to call one of his students with respect. I know for a fact that he hates pretty much every single kid in this school, I’m no exception.

“Yeah, I’m fine.” I eye him strangely.

“Look,” He shuffles in his seat nervously. “since nothing happened and you weren’t hurt or anything, we don’t really have to contact your parents and tell them about any of this now do we?” He asks hesitantly, probably waiting for me to tell him he’s insane.

“Yeah, that makes sense.” Normally it wouldn’t but considering what the fight was about, I’m glad he asked.

He breathes a sigh of relief and pulls away from me. I hear him mumble “Thank God” under his breath and starts to walk towards the door but stops then turns back.

“Be sure to get plenty of rest. Oh, and don’t worry about the issue being a hate crime. Ms. Davies made it very clear that Mr. Dennison was intoxicated when he made such accusations and that Ms. Duarte was very well misinformed.”

“Wait. What do you mean?”

“After you blacked out, Ms. Davies stepped in and stopped Ms. Duarte. They got into an argument and a small fight broke out. By that time we were on the scene and broke it up between the two, that’s when Ms. Davies started yelling at her and everyone else that Mr. Dennison was indeed intoxicated.”

“Oh.” Is all I can think to say. I don’t really know how to react to this.

After that he smiles then leaves. I look around the room for a clock and find one perched on the nurse’s desk. Apparently it’s only been half an hour since I passed out. Should I go to the rest of my classes or just stay here? On one hand, I don’t have to see anyone I don’t like; on the other hand … well I don’t really know.

I make my mind and just decide to stay here until a thought occurs in my head and I get up to leave. This time I slip by the quad unnoticed, seems like there’s another fight. ‘How long can they go without enticing a fight?’